The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-03

MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.
The Office OF the railroad and warehouse
commission at the State capitol was the
tween the officials OF the Milwaukee road
and residents Of the towns along the line
ri the Iowa & Minnesota division. On
Sept. 26, in response to n request made
by citizens OF Faribault, NLrthfield and
other towns in the southern portion OF the
state. and after personal investigation
into the matter, the commission ordereda
on various articles Of merchandise. and
at this meeting the railroad vigorously
pr otested.
The consolidated Vermillion Iron com
pany at Duluth has, it is reported about
concluded q sale Of the half interest in the
company for 100000. The purchasers
are a wealthy English corporation.
After an illness extending over q year,
Mrs. Gustave Heinemann, vile OF ono OF
st. Paul's best known merchants and citi.
zens, died suddenly.
w. G. Meelens, formerly station agent at
Hoffman. Grant county, is charged with
embezzlins funds OF the Minneapolis &
Pacific railroad company while in it's EN-
ploy.
The dwelling OF Mrs. William ONeal
near Rice Station above st. Cloud. was
totally destroyed. with its contents, by
fire during her absence. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, on building. 81. 200; 5000 on con.
tents. Between 5000 and $4,000 in
notes and mortgages were also burned.
thrce-year- SON OF Gotlieb Dreler.
living in Nicollet county, two miles north
OF Mankato, wandered away from home.
He was afterward found dead and frozen
stiffa few rods from the house.
]. H. Bates a we'll known business man
OF Minneapolis, commits suicide.
The earning OF the Northern Pacific for
the third week in October show a hand
some increase over the same period last
year.
Burglars entered NJ. A. Bussen & Co.'s
store at Richmond, Stearns county. and
blew the safe, but only got the outer doors
open.
The Duke of Marlborough called on p.
II. Kelley at St. Paul, and an interesting
Conversation ensued.
At st. Peter, Ben Winkel. prominent
st. Paul citizen, and Miss Emma Bohrer,
OF st. Peter, were married at the Catholic
church by Rev. Father Sorenson.
Three thousand dollars was appropriat-
ed by the council of Hastings to R. o.
Libbey to aid in boring for natural gas. A
quarter interest in the well will be owned
by the city.
Red Wing Special. G. W. Richardson
OF Austin, Tex, arrived here. bringing
with him the corpse of his wife. who died
at her home OF malarial fever. She was
sixty.six years of age. Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ardson were residents OF this city from
1865 to 1875, when they removed to Tex
as. Mr.. Richardson is presiding elder of
the Austin (Tex.) district. The remains
will be buried in the family lot in the town
OF Welch.
Clearwater, Wright county, has q sensa-
ton which has developed into divorce
suit, The mother.in-law ofone of tho local
physicians found him in a compromising
situation with the servant girl one night.
The doctor has consented to seek another
loca tion.
John Fl. Cameron OF Dakota was arrest
ed while very drunk on the street of st.
Cloud and placed in jail. He was taken
violently sick and died suddenly. He has
brother at Grafton.
The low mercury of the 25th ruined
potatoes in some localities.
A young man named Norton Lane, who
has been working on the D., H. & D. grade,
while out hunting four miles northeast OF
Benson. Swift county. accidentally shot
himself and was found dead He was
twenty-four years old, unmarried and
came from Blue Earth county. He owned
a small farm west OF Mankato.
w. E. Seeiye, a lumber operator found q
few miles from Brainerd q large ledge OF
| rock outcropping where iron was supposed
to be in that region. He Clipped
OFF some specimens, and believes, on ex
animation, that he has some mineral bear
ing rock.
General Manager Roswell Miller. OF the
Milwaukee & st. Paul thinks that a rail
road is the only thing in this country
which can be regulated, and says there are
lots of people toying to regulate them. He
says the milk producer gets 27 per cent,
the railroads per cent and the retailer
65 per cent OF the value OF milk, but there
is no way ofregulating the retailer, con-
sequently the railroad commissioners
want the roads to haul the milk for small.
er rates. He cites the case OF flour as an
example OF cheap freight rates. A barrel
of -four is hauled from Minneapolis to
Chicago, over 400 miles, for 15 cents, but
a drayman won't touch it to move it one
block or q dozen for less than 25 cents,
yet the drayman has no invested capital
save his horse and dray, while the rail-
road has millions.
The Gustavus Adolphus College, at st.
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highly successful operation, and equipped
with learned and active faculty of ten
persone. It is Under the patronage and
control OF the Swedish Lutheran Church,
but not UNCONVENTIONAL in it's course of
instruction. On Wednesday Nov. I'd and
the day following there will be festival
and dedication, at which addresses will be
delivered by Gov. McGill, Col. Mattson,
John Lima, and others.
+! Father McDermott, OF Darwin Is very
low with an attack Of paralysis. He is
unconscious large part Of the time.
The Manitoba engineering parties run.
ming the Brainard & Northwestern survey
have disbanded, having completed the
party is forming for Col. Hogeland to 60
beyond Leech Lake to assist the present
engineer there to get through to the Mis-
| sissippi crossing below Itaska lake.
The thirteenth annual convention OF
the Young Mems Christian Association Of
Minnesota, in connection with the associa.
| tions Of Dakota, was called to order at
the NJ. E. church in Faribault by Thomas
Chochran, Jr., chairman, on the 9th.
rhe large three-story hotel, the Rush
| City house, at Rush City, owned and con.
| Quoted by John Bier, was destroyed, with
two new barns and several small buildings.
The fire is thought to have been the work
OF tramps.
Winona Special. The first Of the blind
pigs was brought up before the municipal
court. IL was Mother Shannon. one Of
the best known saloonkeepers in this city.
| She failed to take out q license when the
| $1,000 license law went into effect, and
was arrested on charge OF selling without
one. She was acquitted.
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| Rev. DR.. Hawley, Episcopal dean Of
Northern Minnesota, is dangerously i'll at
st. Paul's rectory at Brainerd. His res.
ignation as rector was accepted previous
| to his illness.
| new four.room school building is COM
pleted at Huron Lake. at cost Of $4, 600.
Three departments in school have been
opened with Prof. w. w. Cressy az princi-
pal.